the holidaze, blog magic & a curly q

lemme start this off with miss thang on her new toy, the tamPOween as she says it. if you have a toddler you really need to get one of these. she's all over it like it's a bag of chips (and if you know lottie you understand the gravity of that statement). lottie sue looks x-tra crazy here, it's how we like her.

lottie sue wearing her sequined headband and
pink sunglasses jump jump jumping away

i feel the need to point out/correct something before i really get started on this post. the wildly popular "sister wife" photo of cera was NOT a school photo. so she didn't forget pictures were that day and then go to school not not dressed appropriately. this photo was taken at olan mills. she made an appointment, people. she thoughtfully picked this outfit out along with the hair.

seriously?
(love you cera!!!)

you know that matt likes to draw and he gets way into it during the cold season. he decided to make a drawing for granbunny and granray as a christmas gift this year. it. is. awesome.

i give you - walkerhuddlenicelyapplemowrerberg.

granbunny and granray with their children,
grandchilden & great-grandchildren

ok, let me post a few photos from the holidays. matt and i were very busy and didn't actually take that many but i do have a few. here are the highlights. the apples have a new camera and i'll steal some of their photos once they put them out in the universe.

lottie sue and harlan look at horses at granbunny
and granray's house on christmas eve

tommy painted a portrait of granbunny and
granray's beloved doggie, duchess
(i wish i had a better photo, it is wonderful and they love it very much)

the kids put out rice krispie treats (they decorated
them with sprinkles - fun project) and milk for santa

queen lottie

cera loves on rowmow

lottie sue running around in her tinkerbell costume (the apple gift)

harlan as a ghost in my snuggie*
(*yes, i have a snuggie. i let it be known that i
would not be upset if one made it my way this
christmas. cera delivered. and i need to point out
that it's great and everyone is always trying to snuggie it up.)

this is lottie sue playing hide & seek before church

more of lottie jumping on her tamPOween

over the break we completed a few projects and watched movies, basically. we started to train miss thang on the potty and it kinda makes you a prisoner in your own home. but in case you are wondering, she is doing so well! we are very proud of her and she now announces when she has to go and makes her way to the bathroom. she's big time now.

cera and i watched a scary movie like this - literally

matt and i have been wanting to hang art and photos as a cluster on our study wall for a long time. we (mostly matt) got around to this hard project over the break. it was not "fun."

lots of measuring and rearranging - not good for a p, as opposed to a j
(nice view if you know what i mean)

here is the "unfinished" project, we have many years to add to it but we have a very good start. we may do the whole room. you can click on the image below to read all about it. and don't roll your eyes too much, there is a lot of "we are mowrer, hear us roar" on this wall.

you can see here where all of the blog magic happens. how intimate.

um, i love my slide - i love making things like this a little too much

bb and grandaddy gave lottie sue a dollhouse for christmas and she's pretty much all over it. judy and johnny gave her a kitty kat family to live there and they are the main residents but others have made their way into the home.

it's hilarious to hear to speak for her "peoples"

she was going through a morning routine with them and the mommy kitty stayed in bed while the daddy kitty went downstairs to wake the kids up and make breakfast. it made us laugh because while i do not stay in bed in the a.m. matt does any and all cooking. it's what she knows.

ballrina lives there as well, this is the outfit lottie
wants her to wear every day - two skirts
(she is fashion forward, i am tearing up - so proud)

new years came and went, here a few photos. we had a low-key evening with the venables, smiths and cera. please note the snuggie usage (high).

the megan of liberty

talk about a chick magnet

cera in the snuggie

prop comedy - ernie as an ushanka

now sam AND mary ann are in the snuggie

the next day we had people over to play board games and basically eat all day. much fun was had.

keepin it real, keepin it clean

matt feeding baby boy

cera's self-portrait - cute

shawn holds little rowmow

rowdy tells a hilarious joke that gets marty rolling

trivial pursuit in full swing

cranium stresses megan out

marty during a charade move

xtina and rowdy hang out

more games

cera drew this of me, see the next photo

she did a perfect rendition (rowdy is not so impressed though)

rowdy laughing at something

lottie with a big-time smile

she was wild with energy, high on life

ok, time for bed

i looked at rowdy yesterday and thought HOW CAN HE BE GROWING SO FAST - YIKES?!? i then took about 200 photos of the kids for posterity's sake. enjoy.

rowdy is one happy boy

lottie sue showing me how to stand with one foot on top of the other
(please note her t-shirt...)

that t-shirt is mine from WAY back when
(i'm on the top row, last girlie on the right)

after rowdy's breakfast i had his clothes downstairs and lottie wanted to wear his onsie. i told her to try it out, she loved it and ran around for a while in it.

again with the fashion-forward business

it's like a jacket with tails

here we have rowdy in his boppy, i tried to get one of him smiling but it didn't happen. he just looks serious and introspective.

please note his curley q, this was the first thing
i noticed about him when we first met

lottie sue has been busy building her portfolio, i'm ending this post with some of her best shots from the past week.

rowdy in the midst of tummy time

blue wall

horses at granbunny and granray's house

some of her dolls on the ottoman

the chairs to her desk

daddy working on the wall

her dollhouse

auntie c on the couch

one of the windows

oh, i spoke too soon. i am really going to end the blog with fascinating things for you to read.

i'm a giver.

• how to train your aging brain, finally!
• you paid WHAT for that tuna?
  
• that michael cera, he really cracks me up (he's one of my man-crushes)
• it's a website full of kids dressed up as superheroes - pretty cute/funny
• here's a mashup of movies from 2009
• dissertations on his dudeness, great read of you are a dude fan
• if you play scrabble like matt and i do you might like this tidbit
  

stick a fork in me. i'm done.

good evening and good nite!

PS - something for you to look forward to...matt's sister michelle mailed a photo to me of matt as a teenager doing his "tigerbeat" pose. it's great. we can laugh at it later. toodles.